Engage, inform, train and certify E-Learning.
We are a nonprofit community located in Toronto.
About UFAL
UCANDU Foundation for Accelerated Learning (UFAL) a not-for-profit organization was established in 2000 to reach out and empower Canada’s multi-cultural communities with Educational, Civic engagement and Social Connectivity with Emotional, Digital, Syntality and technology learning tools.
The UCANDU Foundation offers coaching and support services to parents and their family in the educational and leadership areas. Today, people are assaulted with more than 3.4 Exabyte of data that is generated every day. This is like a stack of CDs - from earth to the moon and back each day. This onslaught of information is causing undo stress, frustration and discouragement for communities, families, adults and student learning. To compound this data stress New Comers to Canada have to assimilate into multi-culture neighbourhoods, learn Canadian multi-cultures, educational systems, job requirements and feel welcomed.
Numerous requests were made from the community for more support to help more families from more diverse ethno-community groups. In response to these requests the UCANDU Foundation expanded several of their programs in education, women empowerment and capacity building by electing more board directors with expertise in managing, outreaching and developing ethnocentric cultural programs for such diverse communities such as: Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Korean, Bangladeshi, Indian groups. We believe that with the support from Companies and Government’s Multicultural Community Capacity programs we will be able to reach out and engage hundreds of new people to learn and become volunteers, community and family leaders and improve the overall community to be more effective in Ontario.
Board of Directors
Every member of our board of directors is a thought leader who has made significant contributions to our society.
Each one brings a unique set of skills and expertise to our organization.
Natalia Galinskaya
Principal/Owner, Little Owl Elementary Private School is the Foundation Board Chair who has extensive experience with families in the community and will be working on outreaching to the diverse ethno-communities in the areas mentioned above to create the awareness and partnerships for group participation.
Prof. Erwin
Sniedzins
Sniedzins
President, Mount Knowledge Inc., is the Foundation President and is an educational expert on artificial intelligence and personal Gamification that helps to engage people in the learning process. He is a University Professor, patented inventor and bestselling author that has created specific programs that help children and adults to cope better with educational and leadership problems. Erwin has been Chairman of several NFP and helped to raise funds for various projects
Victoria
Prooday
Prooday
World renowned Occupational Therapist is the Foundation’s Board of Director and works with children on improving their academic, social, emotional skills provided a positive feedback regarding the futures of the Knowledge Generator (KG) program. Victoria believes that children who struggle with academic and emotional skills require structured and consistent practice at a child's level with a content that is meaningful to a child. KG's features meet these criteria and allow to reinforce therapy goals at school and home.
Vlad
Zhitnikov, MSc
Zhitnikov, MSc
Vlad Zhitnikov holding a Master Degree in Computer Science from Moscow State University of Railway transportation. He started his first small IT company in 1989 in Moscow as DB administrator and CRM developer.
Vlad spent 15 years in Israel both running his own IT support business. and working for one of the leading IT outsourcing company. During this time Vlad helped small and mid-size organizations to leverage the power of MS Terminal Services, Citrix and Thin Clients. Vlad led projects for private sector companies, local municipalities, educational institutions and digital print houses providing the full cycle IT services from solution design to deployment and post installation support and maintenance.
At the same time Vlad joined the group of teachers and professors from former Soviet Union to found educational organization MOFET for kids in high school grades.
In 2005 Vlad started his cloud consulting company. The company goal is to simplify access to the corporate information for remote workers from home, branch office or on-the-go using Cloud technologies. Nowadays, when “mobility, flexibility and productivity” becomes a business goal for many organizations in different industries, Vlad’s company provides a full spectrum of Cloud services from Data Storage, Collaboration and Communications, Security, Backup and Disaster recovery.
Vlad is a 7-years member in BNI Business Edge, a leading B2B networking group in his home town. As well he is serving as a mentor for York Entrepreneurship Development Institute students. In 2017 Vlad joined the Board of Directors of UCANDU Foundation for Accelerated Learning.
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